Representative Norman Paul Roorda View All Years

NORMAN ROORDA

Norman Paul Roorda was born on July 23, 1928 near Pella, Iowa. He graduated from Prairie City High School, attended Central College in Pella for one year, then transferred and graduated from Iowa State University in 1950 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Agriculture. He met Dorothy Lawrence while attending Collegiate Presbyterian Church in Ames and on September 5, 1950 they were married.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1950 to 1952 including 18 months in South Korea where he served as company carpenter- amphibious outfit, and fire direction specialist-artillery. After returning in 1952, he and Dorothy began farming 400 acres of livestock and grain near Monroe and raised six children together. In 2006 they moved to Pella. He is remembered with much love and respect by his family and friends.

Public and community service was important to Norman. He was active in the Republican Party, served as chairman of the Jasper county Farm Bureau, American Legion, was a past president of Monroe Kiwanis, and served on the Jasper County Board of Supervisors. He was active in his church, teaching Sunday school for many years, and served as an elder for thirty years and sang in the choir.

Norman was a Republican from Jasper County. He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in the fall of 1966 and served four terms. He served in many leadership roles on committees and served as an Assistant Majority Leader during his last term in the Sixty-fifth General Assembly.

Norman Roorda passed away on May 27, 2012 at the age of 84.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EIGHTY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA, That in the passing of the Honorable Norman P. Roorda, the State has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this Resolution would express its appreciation of his service.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

GREG HEARTSILL

DAN KELLEY

Committee